A theme running through these images is the damage wrought to the land and people by asbestos mining in these regions. The mining concerns have departed, but the scars of the decades of mining this lethal material remain, and are profound and widespread.

Herman Kabari, Kuruman. 18 December 2002	Recreation Club, Cape Blue Asbestos Mine, Koegas, Northern Cape. 19 September 2002	Recreation Club, Cape Blue Asbestos Mine, Koegas, Northern Cape. 19 September 2002	In an abandoned mineshaft, Pomfret Asbestos Mine, North West Province. 25 December 2002 Edition sold out
Blue asbestos fibres, Owendale Mine, Northern Cape. 26 October 2002	Boesman Kgololo, former truck driver on an asbestos mine, now suffering from asbestosis, Heuningvlei, North West Province. 18 December 2002	The mill, Pomfret Asbestos Mine, North West Provinvce. 20 December 2002 Edition sold out	Adit, Langley Asbestos Mine, Prieska, Northern Cape. 25 October 2002
A villager's 'asbestos map', Kuruman, Northern Cape. 21 December 2002	A villager's 'asbestos map', Kuruman, Northern Cape. 21 December 2002	Blue asbestos tailings and the Colonial Mine, Wittenoom, Western Australia. August 1999	Ben Thorpe, 64 year old former asbestos miner, taking oxygen to relieve lack of breath caused by mesothelioma, Kuruman, Northern Cape. 21 December 2002
Resting between Bute and Heuningvlei, North West Province. 18 December 2002